Am 11.07.22 um 11:37 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman:
On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 11:29:53AM +0200, Christian König wrote:
Hi Greg & Alex
why is that patch picked up for stable? Or are we backporting IP based
discovery?
New device ids are usually added to stable trees as they are "trivial".
Ah! Ok, sounds like a misunderstanding.
For the background this is *not* a new device id, but rather changes the
way the existing device ids are discovered.
Instead of a table with device ids and hard coded list of hw blocks
inside a device, we now look at a VBIOS table to determine which hw
version/blocks are present.
So yes, this might enable new hardware but it's most likely not trivial
enough to be backported.
If yes, is that wise? IIRC we had quite a number of typos etc.. in the
initial patches.
If this commit is incorrect, we will be glad to drop it, or add any
needed add-on commits. Which do you want to see happen here?
Alex, that is mostly a question for you.
Thanks,
Christian.
thanks,
greg k-h
